ANNOUNCEMENTS: 11/9/04:  EXAM #2 REVIEW IS NOW POSTED AND CURRENT. SUBSEQUENT EXAM REVIEWS ARE SAMPLES ONLY Get some help from your publisher:  Outline of Chapters INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTING THE DOCUMENTS IN CLASS

READINGS

COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due	Wednesday September 22 (Week 5)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1	Wednesday October 6 (Week 7)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Wednesday November 10 (Week 12) Print and bring with you this peer review
Exam # 2 Review Posted
Exam #2	Wednesday November 17 (Week 13)
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Wednesday December 1 (Week 15)
FINAL EXAM:	HST 103-05:  FRIDAY DECEMBER 17, 12-1:50pm HST 103-07:  WEDNESDAY December 15, 12-1:50pm

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500-1800 Week 1 (Aug 25)	READ:  Primary Documents Selections TOPIC: Course Introduction; Themes:  Traditions and Encounters What's New in History...?
Week 2 (Aug 30)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 23-25 TOPIC: Why did Europeans Expand into the Wider World?  Early Global Connections  Encounter:  Spain in the Americas:  Conquistadors FILM
Week 3 (Sept 6)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpts. 26-27 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 14-15 Equiano's Travels TOPIC: What was happening in Europe that Contributed to Expansion?  A New World of Reason and Motion: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800 Encounter:  Were There Other Empires?  Beyond Glory, Gold, and God:  African Empires and the Slave Trade
Week 4 (Sept 13)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpts. 28-29 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 16-17 TOPIC: Were There Other Empires?  The Islamic Empires
II. REVOLUTION, INDUSTRY, AND EMPIRE, 1750-1914 Week 5 (Sept 20)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 30 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  John Locke, EXCERPTS FROM The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) and The Declaration of Independence, 1776 Europeans in the World, Chpt. 18 TOPIC: Why did the Americas go their own Way?  Overturning the Political and Social Order: Revolution and the Emergence of National Communities TIMELINE OF US INDEPENDENCE WAR NPR--Declaration of Independence Lincoln's Gettysberg Address
Week 6 (Sept 27)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 32 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 21 TOPIC: What About Latin America?
Week 7 (Oct 4)	MONDAY:  EXAM REVIEW WEDNESDAY:  EXAM FRIDAY:  TBD
Week 8 (Oct 11)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 31 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 19 and Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) TOPIC: How did the New Emerging Economies Change the World?  Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution and Industrial Society
Week 9 (Oct 18)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 33-34 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 20 and Captain F. D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893) Orientalism TOPIC: How did Europeans Expand in the 19th Century?  A New Glory, Gold, and God:  Empires Fall, Empires Rise
III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Week 10 (Oct 25)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 35 Siegfried Sassoon, "Attack" TOPIC: Why did Europe Blow Itself Up?  Big Industry, Big Guns, and the Search for Big Peace:  War and Upheaval, 1900-1918
Week 11 (Nov 1)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 36 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935)  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 22-23 TOPIC: Western Society in Chaos:  World Depression
Week 12 (Nov 8)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 37 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 25 TOPIC: Why Did the World Blow Itself Up...Again?  America's Rise to Supremacy
Week 13 (Nov 15)	MONDAY:  EXAM REVIEW WEDNESDAY:  EXAM FRIDAY:  TBD
Week 14 (Nov 22) THANKSGIVING WEEK	MONDAY:  FILM, "NUCLEAR CAFE"
Week 15 (Nov 29)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 38-39 READ FOR DISCUSSION:  Europeans in the World, Chpt. 24 TOPIC: How did the World Change with the Dissolution of Formal Empires?  A new World Order Emerging
IV. CONCLUSION Week 16 (Dec 6)	READ:  Traditions and Encounters, Chpt. 40 READ FOR DISCUSSION: Europeans in the World, Chpt. 26 TOPIC: The Poverty of Progress?  America's Second Half Century Semester Review